Milo Yiannopoulos

Milo Yiannopoulos’s Cynical Book Deal

... passage: “I was going to write about tonight’s state dinner for Mexico and the amnesty plan, but we’ve got a national crisis here! I think somebody’s been snooping in this diary!”). Meanwhile, under its eponymous imprint, Simon & Schuster publishes works of mainstream history and political science—“Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century” by Daniel Oppenheimer or “Dark Territory,” Fred Kaplan’s history of cyber warfare, to name a couple of recent titles—as well as others explicitly at odds with Threshold’s ideological goals. “American Amnesia,” by the political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, seems like it could be a Mark R. Levin book until you get to the subtitle: “How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper.”. One way to look at this contradiction is to see the Simon & Schuster publishing apparatus as a structural seesaw, with books of competing approaches and points of view balancing each other out. It can be tempting to ...

Over 160 Children’s Book Authors Send Letter To Publisher Protesting Milo Yiannopoulos’ Book

... one of the most prominent faces of the newly repackaged white supremacist/white nationalist movement and financially supported a man who routinely denigrates, verbally attacks, and directs dangerous internet doxxing and hate campaigns against women, minorities, LGBTQ individuals, Muslims, and anyone he chooses to target who supports equality and human decency. Irrespective of the content of this book, by extending a mainstream publication contract, Threshold has chosen to legitimize this reprehensible belief system, these behaviors, and white supremacy itself. The authors also contended that they weren’t “advocating and suppressing free speech” due to Yiannopoulos’ already large platform and to insinuate that their protests would be seen as that would be “gaslighting.” They further added that as published Simon and Schuster authors and illustrators, they “reject the wisdom of the decision” as he and his book “are not America.”. ...

Martin Shkreli To Join Milo Yiannopoulos At Uc Davis Speaker Event

... visit to campus. Although Hexter reaffirmed UC Davis’ Principles of Community and the need to support transgender students, he stated that the event would not be cancelled. “Like most places of higher learning and teaching, UC Davis is a community for all ideas,” Hexter wrote. “As a public university, we remain true to our obligation to uphold everyone’s First Amendment freedoms. This commitment includes fostering an environment that avoids censorship and allows space for differing points of view. Therefore, we will not ask the Davis College Republicans to cancel their event.”. However, Hexter stressed that hate speech is never acceptable. “As a university leader, I take seriously my obligation to challenge discrimination whenever it emerges within our university community,” Hexter said. “Although I support ...

Leslie Jones Accuses Simon & Schuster Over Milo Yiannopoulos Book Deal

... bodies have denounced Simon & Schuster for making the deal. The Chicago Review of Books announced it would not be reviewing any Simon & Schuster books in 2017 – the company publishes about 2,000 books a year across its 35 imprints. Author Karen Hunter, who is published by Simon & Schuster, tweeted that she’s “rethinking my relationship” with the company, while fellow Simon & Schuster author Danielle Henderson wrote: “I have calls in with my editor, agent and lawyer. This is too personal for me to ignore.” She later explained that the publisher had paid a large advance for her forthcoming book The Ugly Cry but that she would be happy to find another publisher if it did go on to put out Yiannopoulos’s book. My night out in Cleveland with the worst men on the internet. Read more. Jones’s colleagues in Hollywood also spoke out. Comedian Sarah Silverman tweeted: “The guy has freedom of speech but to fund him & give him a platform tells me a LOT about @simonschuster YUCK AND BOO AND GROSS”, while director Judd Apatow tweeted: “In these times we can not let ...

Breitbart Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos Is Shouted Down At Uc Davis But Gets The Last Word

... have been a stop on Yiannopoulos’s “Dangerous Faggot” college campus tour.  He was to have been joined by Martin Shkreli, the ethics-challenged pharmaceutical entrepreneur who jacked up the price of an AIDS drug before being indicted on federal securities fraud charges. Last week, Shkreli was suspended from Twitter after harassing Lauren Duca, the journalist whose Teen Vogue essay, “Trump is Gaslighting America,” went viral. For anyone who has followed the debates over campus political correctness, Yiannopoulous offers nothing new. His appeal seems to be a matter of packaging; he is a flamboyant gay Brit who wears jewelry, makeup and Gucci accessories, and carries a gold lame backpack. I guess this is what passes for daring on the right. To give you the flavor of his schtick, here’s a sample of things he said recently at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee , where, among other things, he mocked a transgender student by name for filing a Title IX complaint about bathroom access. “ Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement.”. “If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and ...

Laverne Cox Of 'orange Is The New Black' To Speak At Cu Boulder During Milo Yiannopoulos Visit

... had been talking about bringing Cox to campus for months. Cox's talk in Macky Auditorium on the Boulder campus overlaps with a talk being given at the same time by Yiannopoulos in CU's Mathematics Building. Students, faculty and community members have expressed concern about Yiannopoulos' visit to campus. Yiannopoulos, who is gay, is an editor for the "alt-right" website Breitbart News. He was permanently banned from Twitter for inciting racist abuse against actress Leslie Jones. "Alt-right" is an offshoot of conservatism that has been described as mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. Ahead of a visit to Columbia University, he threatened to dress in drag to portray Emma Sulkowicz , the alumna who carried a mattress around campus after she was sexually assaulted. He told Politico that her rape claim was fake. The visit to Columbia was later postponed because of a scheduling conflict. Earlier this week, a group of faculty members and students announced ...

Uc Berkeley Braces For Breitbart Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos

... started to plague our universities — freedom of speech, expression. “If it takes someone as controversial as Milo to come to Berkeley and open up the discourse,” he said, “so be it.”. That is, if the Berkeley College Republicans come up with the cash. Diaz’s group will be expected to pay for basic security for the public event in the Pauley Ballroom, said campus spokesman Dan Mogulof, and the campus will cover the rest. “We cannot discriminate and we cannot charge the student group extra money based solely on the content of the speaker’s anticipated expression,” Mogulof said. Still, he said, the campus has a responsibility to ensure safety. If Yiannopoulos brings private security guards, as he usually does, UC police must send an equal number of officers, said Mogulof — “so we never have a situation where you have an external bodyguard acting on their own.”. And then there is the possibility of conflict. “We’re getting letters that are saying, ‘If ...

Counter-event Planned To Coincide With Milo Yiannopoulos Talk At Cu Boulder

... racism, white nationalism and populism. Yiannopoulos, who is gay, was invited to CU Boulder by two student groups: the CU College Republicans and the CU chapter of Turning Point USA, a conservative student activist group. Since the two groups announced Yiannopoulos' visit, students, faculty and concerned citizens have launched petitions and voiced their concerns about the conservative provocateur to CU Chancellor Phil Di Stefano. Di Stefano has said that all student groups must be free to invite any speaker they wish to campus. "To be a university dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, our students should be exposed to views that are both in line with their beliefs and those that are not," Di Stefano wrote in a campus newsletter. In recent visits to other campuses, Yiannopoulos has singled out a transgender woman and poked fun at professor. Flaxman said the Buffs United event is intended to promote the values of the Colorado Creed, a short statement that lays out the university's principles. He said those values stand on their own and should be promoted, regardless of who is visiting campus. "Certainly I'd say (Yiannopoulos') presence has been a catalyst for a ...

Milo Yiannopoulos About To Publish First Book

... house Simon & Schuster in March – and is already provoking controversy. The Chicago Review of Books announced it would not review any of Simon and Schuster’s books throughout 2017 as a results of its deal with him. Milo, who left the Langton without completing his studies, is receiving a reported quarter-of-a-million dollars for the book, which is autobiographical. He said: “I met with top execs at Simon & Schuster earlier in the year and spent half-an-hour trying to shock them with lewd jokes and outrageous opinions. "I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building –but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money.”. "I’m more powerful, more influential and more fabulous than ever before, and this book is the moment Milo goes mainstream - debut author Milo Yiannopoulos. Milo, who works as a public speaker and is an editor at the right-wing Breitbart website, was ...